A Firm Reputation
A firm reputation – used to be extremely useful; and wherever society is still dominated by the herd instinct it is still most expedient for everyone to pretend his character and occupation are unchangeable, even…Read
February 2016
The Courage to be oneself
Mideast Talks...
US and Russia fail to agree on Syria peace talks
Freewill and Determinism in Psychology
The ex-Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko poisoned by drinking a cup of tea laced with radioactive polonium-210
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GELNHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel was booed and whistled at by supporters of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a campaign rally on Monday as she sought to persuade voters to grant her a fourth term…Read
An Aphorism from Freidrich Neitzsche
Whom do you call bad? -- Those who always want to put to shame. From the Gay Science\ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek…Read
Merkel starts Germany’s ‘strangest’ election campaign
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has returned from a three-week Alpine holiday to embark Saturday on what may be the most bizarre election campaign in the country's post-war history. After months of studiously ignoring the…Read
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Against Remorse
Against Remorse, -- A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. To be annoyed or feel remorse because something goes wrong---that he leaves to those who act because they have received orders and who have to reckon with a beating when his lordship is not satisfied with the result. -- The Gay Science